Many states in the US are severely affected by snowstorms

On December 8, a big blizzard accompanied by hail stormed many US states, causing traffic congestion and large outages and seriously affecting people's lives.

According to the Meteorological Center, the northeastern US states including Virgina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey are the areas directly affected by the storm.

In these states, heavy snow on the streets, obstructing road traffic and increases the risk of traffic accidents.

In southern Philadelphia, the state of Delaware and the southern state of New Jersey, snow clogs up to 30cm thick. Many businesses had to leave employees to avoid accidents when moving on slippery roads.

Snow and ice also covered large areas of Virginia and Washington, and also caused thousands of people to live in power outages and thousands of flights were delayed.

A person walking on a snow-covered street.(Source: AP)

Blizzard also affected a large area from Texas to Wisconsin. In North Texas, cold and snowy rains also made about 400 international flights at Dallas-Fort Worth delayed, resulting in more than 3,000 passengers stranded at the airport.

This snowstorm also forced many events to be canceled, as the marathon was expected to attract 25,000 athletes in Dallas on December 8.

Meteorological experts predict this extreme weather phenomenon will last until December 9 and may spread to mid-week.

Meanwhile, Virginia State Emergency Management spokeswoman Laura Southard said it was considered one of the "worst" blizzards in Virginia history, paralyzing and seriously affecting Life of the people.

Ms. Southard recommends that all residents need to prepare precautions in these extreme weather conditions.

Large blizzards not only raging in the eastern states of the United States. A blizzard struck along the Utah-Arizona state border, leaving about 300 vehicles stranded on the highway on December 8 night.

The snow is about 25cm thick and the slippery road condition forces Arizona state highway administration to partially close the highway between the two states.

Earlier on November 26, a blizzard also raged in the western United States, causing at least 10 traffic accidents that killed more than 10 people in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and California.

Strong winds accompanied by snowfall also occurred along the US on November 26 and November 27, two days with the highest density of travel in the year when people returned home to prepare for Thanksgiving.